Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.